Great Gatsby Psychoanalytic Lens

Michael Hall

Mrs. Kim

English 3 H

6/2/16

P.6

"The Great Gatsby" seen through the Psychoanalytic Lens F. Scott Fitzgerald lived a life filled with death but also success. Both of his parents died, as well as his two older siblings. But his life still had success in it. He married a women named Zelda and they had a daughter. He also went to Princeton and he soon followed his dreams of becoming a writer. He wrote "The Great Gatsby" and most of his life and experiences is comparable to "The Great Gatsby". F. Scott Fitzgerald's life is seen in his book "The Great Gatsby" through the symbols of gold representing un-pure wealth, Gatsby's flashbacks to his time with Daisy, and the East and West egg as well as the era Gatsby lived in. Throughout

In Chapter five of "The Great Gatsby" Nick Carraway is talking to Gatsby and he says ""I thought you inherited your money. I did, old sport," he said automatically, "but I lost most of it in

But Fitzgerald also had a women that he loved in his life. Her name was Zelda. In "The Great Gatsby", there is a flashback presented on how Gatsby and Daisy met. There meeting can represent the "American Dream". In the flashback, Gatsby meets Daisy on a terrace and they instantly fall in love with each other. But Gatsby goes off to war and Daisy received a letter saying Gatsby was dead so, she married another man. The American Dream at this time would be finding a beautiful women to marry, and to be rich with a high paying job. Gatsby was completing the dream but he fell short when all Daisy was after, was the money. Since Gatsby was not around because he was at war she married Tom Buchanan. In Fitzgerald's life, this love that Gatsby and Daisy had was the same as his own love experience. Fitzgerald was in love with Zelda when he went off to war. Zelda then left him for someone else because Fitzgerald was rich and she wanted someone with money. In "The Life and Times of F. Scott Fitzgerald", Fitzgerald says, "When Scott left the army in February of 1919 he asked her to marry him. She turned him down – apparently because she did not feel he could support her in the style she wanted" (Fitzgerald, 25-26). Zelda believed that Fitzgerald would not be able to support her after being in the military, so she left him. But in the end Fitzgerald and Zelda end up getting married years later. In "The Great Gatsby", Gatsby